Nothing wrong with it. Here’s a website to help you choose the distro: https://distrochooser.de/
Personally, for gaming, I’d recomment Mint or Ubuntu. Probably your hardware will be supported. There’s also Pop!OS, which seems to be completely gaming related as well as SteamOS, but I’ve never used them.
You can run a hardware probe from the live USB to see how well the distro handles your hardware too
https://linux-hardware.org/
I was wondering why you were mentioning IBM, then I read that they bought it for 34B. This decision tracks…